Still trying to come up with a fun holiday gift to give to friends or an acquaintance? Make these snowman belly jars and fill them with edible treats, a fun way to present a gift that can be used even after it’s empty! When finished with the treats, you can use them as fun winter luminaries.
I used DecoArt’s Americana Crystal Gloss Enamel paint and the 3D Gloss Enamel Writers for this project.
The Crystal Gloss Enamels dry transparent and beautiful, it’s definitely a fun paint to experiment with!
There are full printable instructions below. Do all the painting first, then after it’s dried for a bit, use the 3D Writers to outline everything!
Have fun!
Snowman Belly Jars
Supplies
For each jar you will need:
- Glass jar
- Crystal Gloss Enamel paint: white or Crystal and 3 other colors of your choice
- 3 D Gloss Enamel Writer paint in the same colors as you chose above
Instructions
Using Crystal Gloss Enamels:
- Paint jar with White or Crystal and allow to dry.
- Paint mittens.
- Paint button circles.
- Paint scarf.
Using 3D Gloss Enamel Writers
- Outline mittens with matching color.
- Outline buttons with matching color.
- Outline scarf with matching color.
- Use Crystal or White to add a few snowflakes to jar.
- Allow everything to dry completely before using. These can be baked on for a permanent finish, follow directions on the bottle.
Amanda Formaro
Amanda Formaro is the crafty, entrepreneurial mother of four children. She loves to bake, cook, make kid's crafts and create decorative items for her home. She is a crafting expert and guru in the kitchen and has appeared online and in print publications many times over the years. She is also the editor for the Home & Garden channel at Craft Gossip and owner of FunFamilyCrafts.com.
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Bonnie Balwin says
October 25, 2013 at 10:38 amThank you for your ideas. The Halloween ones would have been a favorite years ago. Now we don’t have enough neighbors with kids to make them. Instead we take a bag of goodies to our little friends a couple days before before and give them out. Saves Mom & Dad from going down our long driveway. However in New Mexico everyone lights their driveways on Christmas Eve to show Jesus where He is welcome. The bags with the sand only last a couple of hours and we find neighbors don’t clean them up till spring.Would like some ides: we thought of the canning jars you use in other projects. Does light really shine through them? Thank you!
Amanda Formaro says
October 26, 2013 at 8:48 amHi Bonnie, yes light does shine through them. They would make a great alternative!
Cindy Eikenberg says
December 21, 2012 at 11:56 amThese are so cute and just the inspiration I need for some treats I made! Thank you so much, I always love everything you do. Have a happy holiday!